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Yannik

Boys' name

Variant of Yannick

Yannik has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 2006. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Yannik, 2020

1 in 418,000

Yannik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yannik: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Yannick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yannik means

Yannik is a variant of Yannick.

Origin, language, and formation

Yannik is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yannick.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Yannik between 2006 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2009; its best national rank was #9,521 in 2020.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yannik?

Yannik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 216,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yannik sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,591 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yannik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yanniks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yannik was born before 2009 — so the typical Yannik is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
61.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
21
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 61.9% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Yannik rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (8)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,521
2020

Spellings of Yannik

Yannik is not the most common spelling — Dannie is, with 51.8% against Yannik's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Yannik around the world

Where Yannik ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • France
    1934–2020
    #6,809
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1993–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yannik by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,521
2020
Peak year
2009
8 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yannik

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Yannik

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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